Artist 22: Roy Lichtenstein

Lichtenstein was born in New York City in 1923. He is most known for his pop art style paintings that are reminiscent of comic book art. Many of his pictures even have the word bubbles with dialogue spoken by the person in the picture, making them basically comic book pictures. What I like about his work, especially the example here, "Girl With Hair Ribbon" is simply as stated before, it's just like a comic book. You wouldn't automatically assume this to be an artwork, it's just a comic book drawing. But, isn't that art? Just because it is commercialized and seemingly un-artistic it in itself is an artwork. It is just simplified art, one could say pointilism, since dots make up a lot of the shading, etc, because of how they are printed and made. Lichtenstein took an art style that was underappreciated and misunderstood and really brought it to light of what one could do with it and what it really means. I especially love the old comic book look, it really gives off a classic feeling to me that is fun and unique looking, something I'll always be drawn to.